Part 11
Buffy paces in front of Giles' apartment waiting for Xanader. Fuck! Her mother wasn't the distraction for Giles. Her mother and Giles were the distraction for the killing of Ms. Calendar. Why? Why Ms. Calendar? She had been important to Giles but why would Angel care?
She looks up when Xander pulls up but his car is empty. Rushing to meet him she throws open his door, "Where's Giles?"
"I don't know. The police said he had already left when I got there."
Dammit. She had wasted precious time waiting. She went to where Giles keeps his extra key and opened the door. Yellow crime scene tape was draped around the downstairs. Buffy glances down at the coffee table and sees a pencil drawing.
Cautiously lifting it up to get a better look she sees it is of Jenny laying dead on a bed. There is an 'A' in the corner of the drawing. Xander looks over Buffy's shoulder and a muscle ticks in the corner of his jaw. Here's yet another reason to kill the bastard.
"Giles?" Buffy yells up the staircase hoping that he's up there passed out.
Xander follows Buffy up the stairs. As they reach the landing they notice his weapon cabinet open.
"Oh man, he's gone after them."
Buffy's jaw tightens, "He'll only get himself killed. Let's go."
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Giles stared down at Willy who was lying on the floor. "Where is Angelus?"
Willy looked up at the Watcher through swollen eyes. This one would be as bad as Angel and the others. Willy could see in his eyes that he would not hesitate to kill or torture. He had definitely underestimated the bookish man.
"They've moved to a mansion."
"Where?"
"That old place on Crawford."
Giles just looked at Willy trying to determine if he was telling the truth. He leaned down and pulled Willy's head up by his hair. "If you're lying I'll be back. Do you understand me?"
Willy looked into Giles' eyes and saw that he really didn't want to be here if Angel wasn't at the mansion.
"I swear, that's where they moved to."
Giles let Willy's head drop and stood up. He didn't look back as he grabbed his weapons' bag and left the demon bar.
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Buffy and Xander looked around the empty factory warehouse. All traces of vampire inhabitation were gone.
"Now what? Where'd they go?"
Buffy looked helplessly around trying to think where Angel, Willow and Spike had moved. Giles' voice played in her mind, 'Willy called.'
"Willy's."
"What?"
"Willy's Bar. Earlier Willy called Giles and told him that Angel and Spike were there. Giles said it was a trap."
"Well then, let's go beat some information out of him."
"We better not be too late." Buffy mumbled as she followed Xander out of the warehouse.
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Angel looked up from his sketching of Willow and Spike when he heard a noise behind him. A crossbow bolt narrowly missed his shoulder and embedded itself in the table.
Willow jumps off of Spike's lap as they turn to see who fired it from the shadows.
A determined Giles fires another bolt as he walks into the light.
Spike laughs, "Well, it looks like we've got a very brassed off Watcher. What's the matter? Didn't get enough the first time? Come for another beating?"
Giles didn't answer just takes out a lighter and lights the end of another bolt before firing it. The bolt hits some curtains causing them to go up in flames.
Willow rushes to a fire extinguisher and quickly puts out the flames. She turns to Spike with a smirk, "And you laughed at me when I insisted we get some of these. See, I told you they'd come in handy."
Giles has taken out a bat and swung at Angel's head. Angel ducks and punches Giles in the stomach.
Willow leans against Spike's shoulder, "I don't think Giles liked our present." Giles hits Angel on the back and causes him to stagger. "Should we help?"
Spike watches as Angel and Giles struggle. "Nah, wouldn't be fair. We should wait until he tags one of us."
Angel stands back up after Giles has knocked him down again. Giles prepares to hit him again when Angel blocks the blow and grabs Giles by the neck.
He lifts him off the floor which causes Giles to drop the bat.
"Okay, you've had your fun. Now it's my turn."
No one sees the blonde blur until she kicks Angel in the back and he drops Giles.
"Oi, that's not fair. Giles didn't tag you." Spike yells at Buffy.
Willow looks around the courtyard. Wherever there's Buffy so goes Xander. He's always there to help even if it means his own death. Willow smiles when she sees him lurking in the shadows creeping his way closer to Giles.
Willow nudges Spike's foot with her own to get his attention. Spike looks away from the fight and looks over at Willow with a raised eyebrow. She nods her head in the direction of Xander and Giles.
"Looks like someone's trying to be a hero. Shall we, pet?"
Xander grabs Giles under the shoulder and keeps an eye out for Willow and Spike. As he begins to drag Giles out he sees Willow approach. He takes a cross out and holds in front of him. Willow stops when she sees it.
"Stay back! I know you're not really Willow and I will kill you."
"Of course you will. You killed me the first time so why not now."
Xander looks at her in confusion. "What are you talking about? Angel kidnapped you and turned you."
Willow looks up at Xander with a mock sad expression, "Maybe. But who drove poor Willow from the library in the first place? Who caused her to be taken by Angel? If I hadn't seen you and Cordelia I would have still been in the library researching instead of in the hallway where Spike got me."
Spike smiled in the shadows behind Xander. She was great. Twisting the truth for her own purpose and to hurt Xander the most. Spike raised the bat and hit Xander with it. He and Giles both fell into a heap on the floor.
Willow got some rope and tied them up while Angel kept Buffy occupied. Spike glanced up occasionally and saw Angel sparring with Buffy. He wasn't really fighting her just keeping her distracted while they tied up Xander and Giles.
Angel looked over to where Willow and Spike were standing and smirked at Buffy. "You just going to leave your friends like that?"
Buffy looked quickly over her shoulder at what Angel was talking about. Giles and Xander were sitting in two chairs tied back to back. Willow had a match and Spike had a can of gasoline.
Buffy gave a sweeping kick to the back of Angel's knees causing him to stumble. Buffy quickly ran towards her friends as Willow dropped the match on the trail of gasoline.
Spike and Willow went to join Angelus and they watched as Buffy broke the ropes and lifted Xander up. Buffy lightly slapped Giles to bring him around. There was no way she could carry them both to safety before the flames reached them. Giles groggily blinked a few times before feeling the heat.
"Come on. We've got to get out of here. We'll come back to fight another time."
Giles looks at the smirking faces of the vampires before turning back to Buffy and Xander. He grabs Xander's other shoulder and helps Buffy carry him through the flames.
As they reach the courtyard entrance Giles looks back over his shoulder to see Willow putting out the fire. He sadly shakes his head. She was truly lost to them now.
